Kaylen Smith is a History Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University. Her dissertation explores the transition from the modern civil rights movement into the Black Power era through the lens of religious expression and activism. Kaylen received a Stuart A. Rose Library Short-Term fellowship to study the Vincent A. Harding papers and the Rosemarie Freeney Harding Read More …
Chanelle Rose is a professor of History at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. She specializes in Modern American history with particular emphasis on African American history, post-WWII America, Civil Rights-Black Power, tourism, conservatism, and urban history. Rose is a a 2025 recipient of Rose Library’s African American History and Culture Visiting Researcher Fellowship. There Read More …
Crystal Nelson is an assistant professor of art history at the University of Colorado Boulder whose research and teaching focuses on Black art and Black visual culture(s) as articulated through painting, photography, film/video, and performance. They are a 2025 recipient of Rose Library’s African American History and Culture Visiting Researcher Fellowship. I have recently begun Read More …
Joshua Massey is a Ph.D. candidate at Bard Graduate Center, where they study the art and material culture of the contemporary American South. Their dissertation explores the yard environments of artists Lonnie Holley, Mary Tillman Smith, Dinah Young, and Joe Minter, and the ways in which they function as sites of Black creative, social, and Read More …
Alexandre Dossin is Professor of Piano and Chair of Keyboard at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance. Originally from Brazil, he is a graduate from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Russia) and holds a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin (USA). Alexandre is a 2024 recipient of Rose Library’s African American Read More …
Edward Hyunsoo Yang is a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A scholar of British literature of the long eighteenth century, he has particular interests in: authenticity, experimentation with literary form and genre, the Gothic, the history of the novel, influences of popular culture, the material book, and narrative performance. Read More …
Oli Turner received her bachelor’s degree in English & Creative Writing from Emory University in May 2025. She was awarded Highest Honors for her undergraduate honors thesis ‘I Begin Again’: Witnessing Rebecca Ranson’s Atlanta, which relied primarily on the Rose Library’s Rebecca Ranson Papers. She currently works as a podcast intern at WABE 90.1 FM. Read More …
Sam King-Shaw is a PhD Candidate at the University of Buffalo in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies. Sam’s research explores questions of relationality, desire, (freedom) dreams, and genealogy in twentieth-century Black queer cultural production. They are the 2024 recipient of Rose Library’s LGBTQ Collections Fellowship. In the spring of 2025, I had Read More …
Claude Mohr is an art history Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia studying the histories of modern and contemporary art. Currently, he is interested in the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the early twentieth-century avant-gardes, focusing in particular on the relationship between transgender studies and Surrealism. Claude was a recipient of a 2024 Rose Read More …
By Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist The Rose Library is excited to team up with the Jane Austen Society of North America (Georgia Region) this September to celebrate the life and times of beloved British author, Jane Austen! “Celebrating 250 years of Jane Austen” is an all-day seminar that will include talks from well-known Austen and Read More …
Ebonie Pollock is a PhD Candidate in the History of Art & Architecture department at Harvard University studying Black feminist art histories with a particular focus on Black women sculptors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is the 2024 recipient of the Billops-Hatch Fellowship at Rose Library. I had the privilege of Read More …
Elena Valli is a PhD researcher and Irish Research Council postgraduate fellow at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) working on mid twentieth-century American and British poetry. Her thesis explores the use of Renaissance affective prayer and religious meditation in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, Anthony Hecht, and Geoffrey Hill. Elena received the Rose Visiting Research Fellowship Read More …
